Sachin Khedekar and Tabu starrer drama flick, Astitva, was released on October 6, 2000. The movie was directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and written by Imtiaz Hussain. The other starcast of the movie includes Mohnish Behl, Kishore Nandlaskar, Smita Jaykar, Namrata Shirodkar, Sandeep Mehta, Ravindra Mankani, Santosh manjrekar and Sandeep Padiyar in important roles. The hit melodious music of the movie was directed by the music director Rahul Ranade while the songs were beautifully rendered by Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Hema Sardesai, Sadhana Sargam, Kavita Krishnamurthy etc.

Shreekant Pandit ( Sachin Khedekar ) is married to a beautiful women named Aditi Pandit ( Tabu ). Though they seems to be living a happy life but in reality they are not. Shreekant is very ambitious and wants to make it big one day. He is not able to give time to his wife. He is more busy in his work and completey forgets about Aditi. Aditi feels lonely everytime and one day she gets involved in a physical relationship with her music teacher. She also becomes pregnant with his child.

She tries to confess it to her husband but he get so excited after hearing about her pregnancy that he does not listen to her. But after few days, Shreekant figures out that he has not been physical with Aditi for quite sometime. Aditi confesses truth to him and asks for forgiveness. But Shreekant refuse to listen her plea and decides to divorce her. Aditi get shocked when she reveals that Shreekant is also physically involved with some other lady.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Sabse pehle sangeet
2. gaana mere bas ki
3. Main thi main hoon
4. Chal chal mere sang
5. Kitne kisse hain